I have to say: Android is full of goatse, tracking, and fail. It's the last OS I'd want on an "Off the Grid" phone.

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Maybe is eating better.

Seriously, if you eat right, you don't need to poop nearly as often.

pretty much

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Not so much "no more Facebook" (as I maintain more than a couple Facebook pages for work) but just making it so that using it is more difficult.

It's one of the reasons I didn't just "restore my backup" when I changed phones recently. I rethought some of the apps I previously had on the phone.

There seems to be a growing interest in a "not fully smartphone." Adam Curry picked up on this trend a while ago and he's actually using barely functional phones with little more than a web browser to get back some of his sanity.

The main issue with it now is that SHA2 is a requirement for HTTPS and almost none of the older Symbian phones support it. So… probably not.

as a fomer Nokia employee, I still have a fondness for Symbian.

Don’t worry, I’ll be gone again soon ?

I've actually been in the same timezone for the last few days. And home to boot.